Stories tagged poem

Resurrect the Name of the Dead

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Crack the shell, archaeo-linguists. Let the language breathe a little

Multitasking at the Cotton Patch Cafe

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We can’t chew and swallow/ without the multi-hued glow

Poems I Wish I Had Written

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Parsimony, Sage Advice, Alimony, and Time. That would be one. The Waste Land. The Hollow Men. The Red Wheelbarrow. There are others, But I have definite shoe anxiety dreams and can’t get over them. Do not Go Gently Into That Good Night. Alone

Multitasking at the Cotton Patch Cafe

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We can’t chew and swallow/ without the multi-hued glow

Accident Assurance

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They found your athymic neck/clipped like a bag of Skittles/and your lifeblood left a Rorschach test on the dash/in which they saw the future/and their own exits/(straight ahead and to the right).

moving forward

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see this:/ ink-stained paper/ littering miles

Winter’s End

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this is not some/ sparrow, overfed-

Wild Origin

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Seeking your will, instead we found, somehow, a clutch of our own documents; folded under a rubber band gone to rot, muddy strands nestled in the creases.

Return

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We head home, skirting along the coast, humble before catapulting waves; the lighthouse near invisible if not for a single band of red.

Deity

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On this day, a blinding sky holds ribbed reams of clouds, staccato against staggering blue.

Oneiric

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- Of or relating to dreams

Departures

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Fingers scrabble idly at pocket seams, forage between teeth, grasp for tepid cups, patter a drumbeat on knees.

Omens

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The rain falls soft after a hard weekend.

Winter’s End

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this is not some sparrow, overfed-

Roper RTW4640YQ1

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locking the door against dangerous// human curiosity and forgetfulness.